Phase of the moon
A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's day and night phases of the lunar day as viewed from afar.
At a glance
Key signals
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- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations 2
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
Foundations · builds on
Phase of the moondepends onMoonEstablished
phase of the moon depends on Moon.
Mechanism: The Moon's phase is the fraction of its sunlit half we can see; it depends on the Moon's position because only the Sun-facing side is ever lit.
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
Phase of the moondepends onOrbitEstablished
phase of the moon depends on orbit.
Mechanism: Phases arise from the Moon's orbit: as it circles Earth, the angle between Sun, Moon and observer changes, revealing more or less of the lit half.
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 2 of 2 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Builds on 2 foundations (requires / depends-on / derived-from / emerges-from).
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Structural neighbourhood: 2 → 9 → 31 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
All 2 of its relationships stay within its own discipline — a field-specific concept in the current atlas.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
cross-field
2 within-field, 0 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Its dependency reading rests on 2 foundation relations. structural
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Dependency radial
What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Oscillation24 disciplines · 22 concepts
Concepts
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Mental models at work here
- Connects 2 other ideas across 1 discipline.
- Most of its connections are of the “Dependency” kind.
- It exercises 1 reusable thinking pattern.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English & German editions) verifiedmoderate evidence
- Wikidata verifiedmoderate evidence
- Astronomy: Moon story waxes fuller (2005) verified
- Experiment 16 The Microwave Phase Effect of the Moon (2012) verified